The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

The evolution of automobiles over the past century, from steam engines to smart cockpits, is not just a history of technological innovation but also an epic saga of humanity's struggle to transcend ...

The evolution of automobiles over the past century, from steam engines to smart cabins, is not only a history of technological innovation but also an epic of human struggle to surpass itself and ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

An “emotional and inspiring” archaeological find of Paleolithic tools has revealed a long-lost prehistoric passage that may have enabled movement between Ayvalık and Europe. Continuous stretches of ...

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

Today's technological advancements are taking us to new heights and providing us with chances that were unthinkable only a few decades ago.

Fossil records and archaeological findings suggest a correlation between the two, but they do not yet provide definitive proof that the evolution of the brain and hands was directly linked in a ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...